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For several years as a child, I was convinced that I would be an astronaut when I grew up. I loved everything having to do with space and rockets; I collected photographs and magazines about space travel; I begged my parents to take me to the National...

This week, I went on a potato stamping bender. I know some people go nuts with illicit drugs; I go crazy with an economy-size sack of spuds and neon craft paint. We all have our own vices … but I digress. I had always thought of potato stamping...

Benjamin Sack offers a symphony of imaginary cityscapes at Ghostprint Gallery. by Karen Newton Parents take note: Legos and maps were the building blocks that resulted in a trumpet-playing fine artist whose new exhibition, "Eroica," is based on Beethoven...

Illustration is an art form that is continuously being threatened by the tools of the digital age, but is not completely lost. Artist Benjamin Sack is one of its saviors. Using a black 0.05 Staedtler pigment liner pen, Sack creates intensely...

Every story requires something larger than life and Benjamin Sack’s cityscapes gives the audience exactly that-  place and time, the cities themselves can be thought of as separate characters, with thousands of buildings, roads, churches,...